. Electric railway journal . the disposal of snow, and this method results in^uch shorter hauls. In some cases manholes are .4 iuS^ I^JIk ^ truck has its own route to cover. About twenty saltboxes are distributed at principal locations about thecity where there is a large amount of special railway company has a private telephone dispatch-ing system operated from a central office in the mainoffice building with a telephone at the end of each carline and at other principal locations. This has provedinvaluable in carrying out the snow-fighting program. Chicago Has Immense Wing Plow Prope
. Electric railway journal . the disposal of snow, and this method results in^uch shorter hauls. In some cases manholes are .4 iuS^ I^JIk ^ truck has its own route to cover. About twenty saltboxes are distributed at principal locations about thecity where there is a large amount of special railway company has a private telephone dispatch-ing system operated from a central office in the mainoffice building with a telephone at the end of each carline and at other principal locations. This has provedinvaluable in carrying out the snow-fighting program. Chicago Has Immense Wing Plow Propelled ByThree Work Cars The snow-fighting equipment of the Chicago Sur-face Lines consists of ninety-six sweepers, elevenpower plows, eighty-one drag plows, forty-nine wingplows, and seven large sprinkler cars converted intowing plows. During the heavy snowfall of two yearsago the heaviest drifts were successfully cleared fromthe tracks and from an area wide enough for othertraffic outside the tracks by the use of an immense. HEAVY WORK FOR THE SWEEPER ON THE SAULT STE. MARIE TRACTION LINES located at the spot where removal of snow is neces-sary, thereby decreasing the time of snow removal andreducing the cost of hauling. The city of Rochester is mapped out in routes forthe snow sweepers and plows to follow and these areclassified as Routes 1, 2, 3, and so forth. This infor-mation is posted in each snow equipment for the in-formation of the trainmen so that each crew willknow just what streets to follow and clean, and it,in turn, reports back to the dispatchers office by tele-phone at the end of each route or line. A record iskept in the dispatchers oflfice of each equipment loca-tion and of streets cleaned, so that at any time duringthe storm the superintendent and his assistants knowwhere each sweeper and plow is located. As soon as the equipment is called out, this depend-ing on the density of fall, the location (city, subur-ban and interurban lines) and what amount of snow i
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